Saitama University

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Welcome to Saitama University, an internationalizing national university. Whether you are a prospective undergraduate or graduate student, a would-be exchange student or professor from an overseas partner university, or an organizational leader seeking to collaborate with a premier research institution, I do hope you enjoy exploring this website to know more about our University and to join us.
"Saitama University, All in One Campus at Metropolitan Area Saitama – Embodiment of Diversity, Synergy, and Integration" is the vision of Saitama University (SU). Over the past 68 years since it was established in 1949 as a small university comprising only two schools, SU has grown into a middle-sized national university with five undergraduate schools and three graduate schools in liberal arts, economics, and education, science, and engineering. The University is distinctive in that all the schools are located together on the lush green campus in Saitama, just north of Tokyo. This is very advantageous in many respects, being conducive to research and learning in the integrated fields of humanities and science.
SU has been adding to its brightness more and more by pushing forward two functional enhancements. The first is the base reinforcement by extensively enhancing the functions of fundamental/applied researches and education for global human resource cultivation, based on the university mission being the creation and succession of intellect. As a research institution, we established the Strategic Research Division in 2014, consisting of three research areas: Life & Nano-Bio, Green & Environment, and Sensitivity Recognition Support. A new research area of X-ray & optical, infrared astrophysics has just started in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The second is the self-branding as SU by aggressively taking regional centers' role to activate the metropolitan area around Saitama. In 2016, the Advanced Institute of Innovative Technology was established in SU to promote a concrete utilization of the intellect by the industry-university-government collaboration to provide for the solution to our time concerns. Furthermore, the Career Center SU was organized to positively communicate with the regional community to cultivate talented human resources depending on social needs.
Dr. Takaaki Kajita graduated from the Department of Physics, SU, in 1981, has received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. During his SU life, he was active in studies and sports, especially in the Japanese art of archery, and encountered various studies, professors, and friends. His free and vigorous four years in the SU campus might have led him to the way to a researcher and to a tidemark of winning the Nobel Prize, and his steady research-style could be closely related to sound SU tradition. SU continues to provide high-quality education, research, and social contribution proudly from now on.
Saitama is known for its well-developed industries and cultures, well -balanced urban and natural environment, and convenience.
Saitama's city is the place where the Japanese have had a close relationship with foreigners for a long time and respecting and embracing people from other areas. Moreover, the Saitama prefecture is distributing its touristy information via the Facebook sites "Saitama JAPAN Just North of Tokyo" in 9 different languages. Please click on your language in the table below.
As a comprehensive institution, SU has set the following goals, in line with its critical policies of developing human resources as the mainstay of civil society and generating knowledge and technology in response to the demands of the day to fulfill a universal role seat of knowledge. To strive to solve the challenges facing contemporary society. To contribute to the global community.
As the only national university established in Saitama Prefecture, Saitama University's history began a century ago. Three renowned Japanese national education universities, Urawa Higher School（est.1921, Saitama Normal School （est.1873）and Saitama Youth Normal School（est. 1922）were integrated into Saitama University in 1949 to cultivate talented minds. The University was established based on the diverse characteristics and the know-how of each institute. These founding principles reflect the diversity, harmony, and progress seen on our campus today.
Saitama University has long been established as a respected national university within Japan. As part of our global initiative, we convey outstanding results born from our various research projects to scholars worldwide.
The University is not the stereotypical, conventional Japanese national University.
We create originality from original mindsets. Our students communicate with faculty. Our faculty's fields of expertise enable Saitama's unique curriculum of combining onsite classes and research to academics.

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